Erste Group AG v Red October (with Richard Snowden QC and Richard Morgan QC): conspiracy claims brought by an Austrian bank against
Russian state entities involving allegations that a corporate borrower was stripped of its assets and forced into insolvency to avoid its liabilities under a US$ 80 million loan facility.
Not exact matches
But Trump slightly changed his tune after a federal grand jury on Friday indicted 13
Russians and three
Russian entities for allegedly waging information warfare against the United
States.
The United
States has imposed sanctions against
Russian entities for the NotPetya ransomware outbreak, cyber-attacks on the US power grid, and their attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election process.
The report
stated that
Russians launched attacks on «critical infrastructure
entities» in the US and «conducted damaging and / or disruptive cyber-attacks» on critical infrastructure networks in other countries.
Multiple Cambridge Analytica sources have revealed other links to Russia, including trips to the country, meetings with executives from
Russian state - owned companies, and references by SCL employees to working for
Russian entities.
This raises questions of whether other
entities who received a similar pitch could also have replicated the methodology - this is of particular important in relation to Lukoil for example, a
Russian state - owned company that Cambridge Analytica pitched their methods to around the time SCL were delivering training in methods to Eastern European countries to «counter
Russian threat».
Prompted by the widespread
Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen
states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the
state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign
entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.
Erste Group Bank AG v JSC VMZ «Red October» [2014] BPIR 81 (Comm Ct); [2015] 1 CLC 706 (CA)(with Richard Snowden QC and Richard Morgan QC): substantial jurisdiction challenge at first instance and on appeal in relation to conspiracy claims brought by an Austrian bank against
Russian state - owned
entities.
In fact, DOJ recently charged a foreign national, among others, in connection with an alleged scheme to bribe a
Russian state - owned
entity.
Despite its
Russian success, Alpari has seen significant struggles in recent years — following the insolvency of its UK
entity and the revocation of the company's United
States National Futures Association and subsequent exit from the US markets.
Twitter, like Facebook, is being examined for its part in spreading content created or paid for by
Russian state - sponsored
entities with the desire to influence U.S. politics.
«Multiple Cambridge Analytica sources have revealed other links to Russia, including trips to the country, meetings with executives from
Russian state - owned companies, and references by SCL employees to working for
Russian entities,» the Observer reported.
In January 2014, the Central Bank of the
Russian Federation responded by issuing its first statement about cryptocurrencies, calling them speculative, high - risk, and not backed by
state entities.
Russia's Nikolai Nikiforov
stated that ``... the
Russian law will never consider bitcoin as a legal
entity in the jurisdiction of the
Russian Federation.»